Thank you, Deputy Speaker. This is an unnecessary debate because Ms Smuts and Ms Vos did not ask the right question.
They asked about Mr Du Plooy from Groenkloof, which a person answered. Nobody bothered to ask: "Do you know somebody in the Presidency or somebody working for a particular Minister? If you have not done that, how do you blame anybody else? People did not ask that question. By the way, the law allows any South African to nominate a person of their choice. It is up to us as a committee to consider that nomination.
Members, if I did not know Ms Smuts and Ms Vos better I would have called them closet racists because this is not the first time that when particular people are nominated they have a problem with it. [Interjections.] It is nothing like that. It is because an African woman has been nominated that they have a problem. [Interjections.]
I do not know what the point of order is. Maybe I am too close to the truth when I call them closet racists. Maybe it is about time that they must come out and say: "Yes, I am a racist. I have a problem with the African woman." [Interjections.]